New American Standard Bible 1995

Acts 7:39-43

39Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but 1repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt, 40 2saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt--we do not know what happened to him.’ 41 3At that time 4they made a 5calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in 6the works of their hands. 42But God 7turned away and delivered them up to 8serve the 9host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘10It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices 11forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel? 43 12You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god 13Rompha, the images which you made to worship. I also will remove you beyond Babylon.’

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Notes

1. Acts 7:39 Num 14:3f ↩
2. Acts 7:40 Ex 32:1, 23 ↩
3. Acts 7:41 Lit in those days ↩
4. Acts 7:41 Ex 32:4, 6 ↩
5. Acts 7:41 Or young bull ↩
6. Acts 7:41 Rev 9:20 ↩
7. Acts 7:42 Josh 24:20; Is 63:10; Jer 19:13; Ezek 20:39 ↩
8. Acts 7:42 Or worship ↩
9. Acts 7:42 I.e. heavenly bodies ↩
10. Acts 7:42 Amos 5:25 ↩
11. Acts 7:42 Acts 7:36 ↩
12. Acts 7:43 Amos 5:26, 27 ↩
13. Acts 7:43 Other mss spell it: Romphan, or Rempham, or Raiphan, or Rephan ↩

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